We have not figured out a way to keep track of all the Perks we do and do not have.
I wish there was somekind of computer program that had it all built in. You could tell it where you were going (which parts of which Parks or Downtown Disney) a day or two ahead, and it would tell you what you might want to think of doing a day or two ahead of time (such as restraurant priority seating booking at the places you were going or along the route) and you could then take a hand-held version along that would let you know which shops or other special things you could take advantage of to exercise a DVC resort guest perk.
And some of these are pure-DVC perks and some just because we are resort guests and some just because we knew to do them ahead of time -- and it is hard to remember which is which, if we remember them at all.
Yes, you can find all this if you look hard enough, and they give you things to read when you get there, and if you go often enough, you will remember more and more of it.
But we only go once every 2 years, by which time even if we had remembered a perk (such as having our purchases in the Parks delivered to our rooms), it may have changed or gone to perk-heaven.
Our days there are precious, since they do come only once every other year, so that the Welcome Home packet, which tells about the latest limited-term discounts and other perks, is a LOT to absorb in the short time that we are not in the Parks actually doing what we came there to do. And we have not figured out an effective way to master it all as part of our trip planning either.
It just seems that there is a lot keep track of and so everyplace that we pay for anything, I always ask if there is a DVC and/or a resort guest discount. But I still forget a lot of the other perks (this time we finally remembered that we could do advanced priority seating at restaurants simply by picking up our room phone and pushing the "Disney information" button and following the prompts -- but that came only after we found Rain Forest Cafe at DAK to be a real zoo the day we were there and people were using their own pre-arranged priority seating that finally reminded one of us that we can do that too).
So how do others keep track of all the perks in a way that you really can use them effectively as part of your day-to-day activities?
I wish there was somekind of computer program that had it all built in. You could tell it where you were going (which parts of which Parks or Downtown Disney) a day or two ahead, and it would tell you what you might want to think of doing a day or two ahead of time (such as restraurant priority seating booking at the places you were going or along the route) and you could then take a hand-held version along that would let you know which shops or other special things you could take advantage of to exercise a DVC resort guest perk.
And some of these are pure-DVC perks and some just because we are resort guests and some just because we knew to do them ahead of time -- and it is hard to remember which is which, if we remember them at all.
Yes, you can find all this if you look hard enough, and they give you things to read when you get there, and if you go often enough, you will remember more and more of it.
But we only go once every 2 years, by which time even if we had remembered a perk (such as having our purchases in the Parks delivered to our rooms), it may have changed or gone to perk-heaven.
Our days there are precious, since they do come only once every other year, so that the Welcome Home packet, which tells about the latest limited-term discounts and other perks, is a LOT to absorb in the short time that we are not in the Parks actually doing what we came there to do. And we have not figured out an effective way to master it all as part of our trip planning either.
It just seems that there is a lot keep track of and so everyplace that we pay for anything, I always ask if there is a DVC and/or a resort guest discount. But I still forget a lot of the other perks (this time we finally remembered that we could do advanced priority seating at restaurants simply by picking up our room phone and pushing the "Disney information" button and following the prompts -- but that came only after we found Rain Forest Cafe at DAK to be a real zoo the day we were there and people were using their own pre-arranged priority seating that finally reminded one of us that we can do that too).
So how do others keep track of all the perks in a way that you really can use them effectively as part of your day-to-day activities?
But I did remember to get it at the Cape May Buffet 
